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Dear Friends,

This morning my son was distraught because while I was going to be at his Spanish performance, his father couldn’t be (and Bowen recalled that he hadn’t made it to the last Spanish play either.) While his dad felt badly, I urged him not to apologize. We are a two working parent family, and as I explained to our son, while I understood he is feeling badly, he is fortunate to have one of us at everything. Between the two of us, I can’t think of a moment we have missed. In most families, it simply isn’t possible to have one parent covering everything. I remember a few years ago when my daughter was sad that I had to miss a performance and my other daughter said to her, “Mommy is at most things.”

While we want to empathize with our kids, we also want to foster an understanding that we work hard for the life we live. And that it's a life to live proudly.

MEDIA ON MY MIND

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Sam's Cents

Your Facebook photo

My kids are so cute. Your kids are so cute. So when Facebook asks for a profile photo, it is only natural that we want to put the latest cute kid photo up there. The problem? They are not you. The friend from college. The old colleague. The future job interviewer. They all want to see YOUR face.

Nothing screams unprofessional like a kid shot in place of your own. Just the other day, a friend recommended a mom for a position in my company. She said this woman was eager to get back to work, so I immediately looked for her on Facebook. In place of her, I found six photos of her children. I never found her. She had disappeared behind her children. This left me thinking she wasn’t so eager to get back to work after all.

Save the family photos for your Facebook timeline, but keep your own profile photo professional. Even if you aren’t working now, there will be a time in the future when you want to be. Either way, we all want to see the woman behind the family. We want to see you!

THE PRESS BOX

Podcast alert: I was interviewed on the City Moms podcast about work/life balance.
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